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For over 25 years, Paul McVeigh (@PaulMcVeigh77) has been an elite performer in two of the most competitive industries on the planet; elite sport and performance psychology. As a thought leader in business, performance psychology and as a published author, he’s dedicated his career to understanding what makes humans ‘tick’ and how it affects the way they think, feel and act.

As a Premier League and International football player for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Northern Ireland, Paul competed with and against the best players in the world on a daily basis which has shaped his understanding of his methodology of high performance. As a world-renowned expert in elite performance, Paul’s credibility comes from his unique combination of reaching the pinnacle of elite sport as well as being the first Premier League footballer to qualify with a Master’s Degree in Psychology.

Paul specializes in implementing the mental tools required to elevate the performance of leaders and teams from organizations across the world; especially in financial services, technology, and the professional services industry. In today's podcast, Jerry, John and Paul discuss the keys to elite mental performance, the influence of great teammates such as Jurgen Klinsmann, and what business can learn fromt he world of professional sports.

Learn more at www.PaulMcVeigh.com

PUT IN YOUR BULK BOOK ORDERS FOR OUR BESTSELLING BOOKS!: Programs such as UNC soccer and lacrosse, Syracuse lacrosse, Stanford Lacrosse, Middlebury College, Colby College, Rutgers University, and many other champions are using THE CHAMPION TEAMMATE book with their athletes. Schools and clubs are using EVERY MOMENT MATTERS for staff development and book clubs. Are you?  We have been fulfilling numerous bulk orders for some of the top high school and collegiate sports programs in the country, will your team be next? 

Please click here and grab yourself a copy of The Champion Teammate today.  

Please email John@ChangingTheGameProject.com if you want discounted pricing on 10 or more books on any of our books. Thanks everyone.

This week’s podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sprocket Sports.  Sprocket Sports is a new software platform for youth sports clubs.  There are a lot of these systems out there, but Sprocket provides the full enchilada. They give you all the cool front-end stuff to make your club look good– like websites and marketing tools – AND all the back-end transactions and services to run your business better so you can focus on what really matters – your players and your teams. 

Sprocket is built for those clubs looking to thrive, not just survive, in the competitive world of youth sports clubs.  So if you’ve been looking for a true business partner – not just another app – check them out today at https://sprocketsports.me/CTG.

Become a Podcast Champion! This weeks podcast is also sponsored by our Patreon Podcast Champions. Help Support the Podcast and get FREE access to our most popular online courses, a $300 value. If you love the podcast, we would love for you to become a Podcast Champion, (https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions) for as little as a cup of coffee per month (OK, its a Venti Mocha), to help us up the ante and provide even better interviews, better sound, and an overall enhanced experience. Plus, as a $10 per month Podcast Super-Champion, you will have access to never before released and bonus material, including:

• Downloadable transcripts of our best podcasts, so you don’t have to crash your car trying to take notes!
• A code to get free access to our online course called “Coaching Mastery,” usually a $97 course, plus four other courses worth over $100, all yours for free for becoming a patron.
• Other special bonus opportunities that come up time to time
• Access to an online community of coaches like you who are dedicated listeners of the podcast, and will be able to answer your questions and share their coaching experiences.

For over 25 years, Paul McVeigh (@PaulMcVeigh77) has been an elite performer in two of the most competitive industries on the planet; elite sport and performance psychology. As a thought leader in business, performance psychology and as a published author, he’s dedicated his career to understanding what makes humans ‘tick’ and how it affects the way they think, feel and act.

As a Premier League and International football player for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Northern Ireland, Paul competed with and against the best players in the world on a daily basis which has shaped his understanding of his methodology of high performance. As a world-renowned expert in elite performance, Paul’s credibility comes from his unique combination of reaching the pinnacle of elite sport as well as being the first Premier League footballer to qualify with a Master’s Degree in Psychology.

Paul specializes in implementing the mental tools required to elevate the performance of leaders and teams from organizations across the world; especially in financial services, technology, and the professional services industry. In today's podcast, Jerry, John and Paul discuss the keys to elite mental performance, the influence of great teammates such as Jurgen Klinsmann, and what business can learn fromt he world of professional sports.

Learn more at www.PaulMcVeigh.com

PUT IN YOUR BULK BOOK ORDERS FOR OUR BESTSELLING BOOKS!: Programs such as UNC soccer and lacrosse, Syracuse lacrosse, Stanford Lacrosse, Middlebury College, Colby College, Rutgers University, and many other champions are using THE CHAMPION TEAMMATE book with their athletes. Schools and clubs are using EVERY MOMENT MATTERS for staff development and book clubs. Are you?  We have been fulfilling numerous bulk orders for some of the top high school and collegiate sports programs in the country, will your team be next? 

Please click here and grab yourself a copy of The Champion Teammate today.  

Please email John@ChangingTheGameProject.com if you want discounted pricing on 10 or more books on any of our books. Thanks everyone.

This week’s podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sprocket Sports.  Sprocket Sports is a new software platform for youth sports clubs.  There are a lot of these systems out there, but Sprocket provides the full enchilada. They give you all the cool front-end stuff to make your club look good– like websites and marketing tools – AND all the back-end transactions and services to run your business better so you can focus on what really matters – your players and your teams. 

Sprocket is built for those clubs looking to thrive, not just survive, in the competitive world of youth sports clubs.  So if you’ve been looking for a true business partner – not just another app – check them out today at https://sprocketsports.me/CTG.

Become a Podcast Champion! This weeks podcast is also sponsored by our Patreon Podcast Champions. Help Support the Podcast and get FREE access to our most popular online courses, a $300 value. If you love the podcast, we would love for you to become a Podcast Champion, (https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions) for as little as a cup of coffee per month (OK, its a Venti Mocha), to help us up the ante and provide even better interviews, better sound, and an overall enhanced experience. Plus, as a $10 per month Podcast Super-Champion, you will have access to never before released and bonus material, including:

• Downloadable transcripts of our best podcasts, so you don’t have to crash your car trying to take notes!
• A code to get free access to our online course called “Coaching Mastery,” usually a $97 course, plus four other courses worth over $100, all yours for free for becoming a patron.
• Other special bonus opportunities that come up time to time
• Access to an online community of coaches like you who are dedicated listeners of the podcast, and will be able to answer your questions and share their coaching experiences.

For over 25 years, Paul McVeigh (@PaulMcVeigh77) has been an elite performer in two of the most competitive industries on the planet; elite sport and performance psychology. As a thought leader in business, performance psychology and as a published author, he’s dedicated his career to understanding what makes humans ‘tick’ and how it affects the way they think, feel and act.

As a Premier League and International football player for Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Northern Ireland, Paul competed with and against the best players in the world on a daily basis which has shaped his understanding of his methodology of high performance. As a world-renowned expert in elite performance, Paul’s credibility comes from his unique combination of reaching the pinnacle of elite sport as well as being the first Premier League footballer to qualify with a Master’s Degree in Psychology.

Paul specializes in implementing the mental tools required to elevate the performance of leaders and teams from organizations across the world; especially in financial services, technology, and the professional services industry. In today's podcast, Jerry, John and Paul discuss the keys to elite mental performance, the influence of great teammates such as Jurgen Klinsmann, and what business can learn fromt he world of professional sports.

Learn more at www.PaulMcVeigh.com

PUT IN YOUR BULK BOOK ORDERS FOR OUR BESTSELLING BOOKS!: Programs such as UNC soccer and lacrosse, Syracuse lacrosse, Stanford Lacrosse, Middlebury College, Colby College, Rutgers University, and many other champions are using THE CHAMPION TEAMMATE book with their athletes. Schools and clubs are using EVERY MOMENT MATTERS for staff development and book clubs. Are you?  We have been fulfilling numerous bulk orders for some of the top high school and collegiate sports programs in the country, will your team be next? 

Please click here and grab yourself a copy of The Champion Teammate today.  

Please email John@ChangingTheGameProject.com if you want discounted pricing on 10 or more books on any of our books. Thanks everyone.

This week’s podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sprocket Sports.  Sprocket Sports is a new software platform for youth sports clubs.  There are a lot of these systems out there, but Sprocket provides the full enchilada. They give you all the cool front-end stuff to make your club look good– like websites and marketing tools – AND all the back-end transactions and services to run your business better so you can focus on what really matters – your players and your teams. 

Sprocket is built for those clubs looking to thrive, not just survive, in the competitive world of youth sports clubs.  So if you’ve been looking for a true business partner – not just another app – check them out today at https://sprocketsports.me/CTG.

Become a Podcast Champion! This weeks podcast is also sponsored by our Patreon Podcast Champions. Help Support the Podcast and get FREE access to our most popular online courses, a $300 value. If you love the podcast, we would love for you to become a Podcast Champion, (https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions) for as little as a cup of coffee per month (OK, its a Venti Mocha), to help us up the ante and provide even better interviews, better sound, and an overall enhanced experience. Plus, as a $10 per month Podcast Super-Champion, you will have access to never before released and bonus material, including:

• Downloadable transcripts of our best podcasts, so you don’t have to crash your car trying to take notes!
• A code to get free access to our online course called “Coaching Mastery,” usually a $97 course, plus four other courses worth over $100, all yours for free for becoming a patron.
• Other special bonus opportunities that come up time to time
• Access to an online community of coaches like you who are dedicated listeners of the podcast, and will be able to answer your questions and share their coaching experiences.

In this episode, I’m joined by Barnaby Sargent Megicks. Barney is a PhD Student in Sport Coaching at Leeds Beckett University with ICOACHKIDS. His research focuses on talent and holistic development.

Barney is a Loughborough University and University of Birmingham Graduate and a qualified PE teacher. He is also a hockey coach at Leeds Hockey Club and West Yorkshire.

Barney and I discuss talent development environments (TDEs) and particularly focus on a paper that Barney led entitled ”Examining European Talent Development Environments: Athlete, Parent and Coach Perceptions”. We discuss the findings of the paper and elaborate on what coaches and leaders can take from the research.

You can find the paper here:  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2023.2172800 

Join us as we sit down with Yoeri Pegel - head of strength for Ajax football club in Amsterdam as well as working with Olympic athletes & elite combat sports athletes. We talk about everything from training in season & out, how to maximise gains and when to focus more on maintenance. Yoeri discusses his approach to coaching, cueing and being flexible to the audience you're working with, as well as what "sports specific" training means and the principles he takes in to every session! In addition to that we touch on how he looks at and measures fatigue so you know when to and more importantly, not to push the athletes!

The past year has delivered us powerful images and reminders all around us. One lesson worthy of acknowledgment and awareness is the difference between externally-focused leaders and teams and intrinsically-motivated and aligned leaders and teams. The difference, and outcomes, are obvious. 

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My guest today is Coby Karl, head coach for the South Bay Lakers of the NBA G League. He played professionally in the NBA for multiple teams, including for Phil Jackson and the Lakers, and overseas.

In this episode, we discuss what it was like to grow up the son of former NBA Head Coach George Karl and the lessons he learned being around the game at a young age. Then we dive into his transition from a player to a coach with the Knicks G-League team and now the Lakers G-League team. He touches on his coaching philosophy, favoring simplicity versus complexity, and how he’s tried to give his players space to grow. We talk about his eagerness to learn and lessons he’s taken from people like Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant and Ryan Holiday.

Coby is going to be releasing his own podcast soon called The Curious Leader, which will kick off with guests like Phil Jackson and Metta World Peace (Ron Artest), so be sure to go subscribe to listen to those episodes when they release in early February.

Show Notes:

(1:43) - Episode begins with growing up the son of a coach and being a ball boy for the Seattle Sonics

(5:00) - How he handles the stress of the job

(7:15) - The benefits of coaching in the NBA G-League

(8:55) - What made him want to pursue coaching as a profession after his playing career

(11:05) - The transition from player to coach

(16:20) - Why he tries to keep things simple for his players

(21:30) - What he focuses on to develop guys like Alex Caruso, Thomas Bryant, etc.

(24:40) - What led him to start a podcast (The Curious Leader)

(27:50) - How time playing for and spent with Phil Jackson made him introspective

(29:18) - Must listen story about him sneaking into the Chicago Bulls locker room to watch Michael Jordan during the NBA Finals when he was a ball boy for the Seattle Sonics

(30:35) - Best memorabilia he has from his playing career and being a ball boy

(33:05) - Coaching lessons taken from Phil Jackson

(40:50) - What made him so curious to reach out to connect with people like Ryan Holiday

(43:20) - Lessons learned from playing with Kobe Bryant and spending time with him after they both retired

(48:50) - Why he wants to focus on holding players accountable

(52:50) - What he would tell himself if he could go back to his first day of coaching

(54:20) - Having to handle his 2020 season cut short and the 2021 season not happening

(58:45) - End of episode questions

End of Episode Questions:

1.    What’s 1 book every coach should read?

• The Alchemist

2.    Who is one person you’d want to hear as a guest on this podcast? 

• Barack Obama

3.    What’s one area you’re looking to improve in over the next year? 

• Clarity and the ability to communicate that clarity to players

4.    What’s popular advice you hear people say that you think is wrong?

• n/a

5.    What advice do you have for young coaches who are listening to this?

• Be a head coach at whatever level you can be

6.    What’s the darkest moment you experienced professionally and how did you overcome it?

• Two moments: The first was getting cut by the Lakers the day before his second season with the team. The second was a losing streak for an entire month during the G-League season last year. He overcame it by continually showing up and leaning on his staff.

Favorite Quotes:

“I don't know if I ever told this story, but I was a ball boy in the (NBA) Finals during that time and I was a ball boy in the home locker room, which they have different sets. So you don't like … go in the visitors locker room unless you're invited. And I snuck in and I was sitting there, like, just trying to like act like no one knew who I was…and like literally I was just staring at Mike (Michael Jordan). And like Michael had like this unbelievable focus, right? It was like I wasn't even there. It's like he was in his own space, and you know, the more I've learned on the mental side of it is like he did, he was in his own space. He was in his comfortable zone and he wasn't focused on, like, I couldn't get him out of that. And I think that goes too high performance, ability to maintain focus, and to coach Jackson's ability to train that.”

“The one thing that I provide for them (his players) is simplicity so they can figure out who they are within a team structure.”

“I've been on that pursuit for my whole life, like how do I become a better human, you know, and that was why I reached out to Ryan Holiday because his stuff with stoicism, The Daily Stoic, The Daily Dad, have really impacted my life.”

“You know, I think as a teammate, I noticed immediately he was vicious, just absolutely vicious. And that's who he was, that's how he lived, it was 100% focus. I think watching The Muse that he came out with, you can see there's just this, almost like an animal, animalistic drive to just compete, get better, find a way. Like, you go read his book, which I've read…he talks about studying animals and studying the black mamba. I think for me when I was younger, I was like this is ridiculous…but as I've gotten older, I’m like wow, this stuff does apply there. There's a lot of, I mean, we are animals at the core.”

“Once you can trust me, or I can trust you to hold you accountable at a really, really difficult, uncomfortable level, then then we can start growing together. We can start being more than the sum of our parts.”

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My guest today is Bret Burchard, co-founder of the mindset development company ChampionShift and co-author of “Catching Confetti: Developing the Mindset of a Champion." For the last 10 seasons, he has worked with the Phoenix Suns in various roles, most recently as a development coach and the head coach of their G League team.

In this episode, we discuss his coaching experience with the Phoenix Suns and what piqued his interested to dive head first into the mental performance aspect of coaching and player development. He gives some background on his book and course that he started this year, both of which are designed to help coaches improve their mental game. We dig into some of the different mindsets he believes top performers have and how you can both develop them yourself and instill them within your players. For any coach who wants to improve their mental game, this episode is a must listen.

Show Notes:

(1:21) - What led him into coaching

(3:00) - What it was like to be part of Taylor University’s “Silent Night”

(4:45) - What piqued his interest in the mental performance side of coaching

(7:30) - An overview of his book

(9:12) - The issue with people attaching their identity to performance

(16:00) - The mindsets he discusses in his book

(20:22) - Some of the mindsets coaches have embraced the most

(23:10) - Best practices for goal setting

(27:29) - Helping players navigate their fears and vulnerabilities

(30:55) - How to encourage competition without comparison

(34:22) - Overview of his course

(41:35) - His mentor and Dad embracing the ideas in his book

(41:35) - Where to go to learn more: Website | Book

(43:15) - End of episode questions

End of Episode Questions:

1.    What’s 1 book every coach should read?

• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin

• The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler

2.    Who is one person you’d want to hear as a guest on this podcast? 

• Chris McAlister

3.    What’s one area you’re looking to improve in over the next year? 

• Improve in communicating with players about your vision

4.    What’s popular advice you hear people say that you think is wrong?

• You have to play with a chip on your shoulder

5.    What advice do you have for young coaches who are listening to this?

• Be more concerned with who you’re becoming than what you achieve.

6.    What’s the darkest moment you experienced professionally and how did you overcome it?

• Tying his success as a coach to identity with the Suns in his second year as the Head Coach with the G-League team

Favorite Quotes:

“All suffering reveals the center of your identity.”

Andy is a strongman competitor and coaches athletes in the elite performance realm. We dig into a number of fascinating topics such as the circadian rhythm, SSRI’s (anti-depressants) vs. cocaine, optimizing sleep and meal timing.

We also delve into minimizing the negative effects of alcohol, marijuana, sleep drugs, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, eyesight, stability, sleep tracking, shift work and a whole bunch more!

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Dr. Andy Walshe is a globally recognised leader and expert in the field of elite human performance. He has spent more than 20 years researching ways to “Hack Performance” in sport, culture, military and business to create a deeper understanding of the “Human Potential Construct”. Andy’s ultimate vision is a world where we have established a known recipe for elite performance and thus can equip some of our greatest minds with the tools they need to succeed and improve the world. Andy’s elite performance programs are designed to make accessible, and to democratise these tools, and understandable to all regardless of industry, vocation or passion.

Andy led High Performance Program for Red Bull from 2009 to 2017, and worked with hundreds of international athletes and business leaders to develop and implement elite performance models. In 2012 he lead the performance plan for Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking jump to Earth from the stratosphere. In 2017 he co-founded The Liminal Collective, which helps create, plan, organize and execute against some of humanity's greatest opportunities, ranging from space flight and deep sea exploration to reimagining the future of national security and elite sport.

In this episode, Andy and Mark sit down to discuss the intricacies of human potential and how certain qualities of elite performers resonate across sectors, industries and arenas; how companies can evolve to enable more talented employees to excel and his project Human 2.0 which looks at how new technologies especially in the arena of Artificial Intelligence encourage us to explore our own potential at a much higher level.

Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Liminal Collective: https://www.liminalcollective.co/ 
• Connect with Dr. Andy Walshe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-walshe-b418968/ 

Elite and world class performance is not just about 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. We often overlook the critical research that reveals how rest plays a role in performance, the creative process, and how the best leaders, teams and organizations on the planet don’t buy into the myth that “the faster we run the further we get.” So what is the true equation for world class performance? Are you and your team incorporating these practices into your journey?

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